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Full-Text Articles in Arabic Studies
Studying Hadith Commentaries In The Digital Age, Aslisho Qurboniev, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Maroussia Bednarkiewicz
Studying Hadith Commentaries In The Digital Age, Aslisho Qurboniev, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Maroussia Bednarkiewicz
Faculty & Staff Publications
In this essay we reflect on the challenges involved in corpus building for hadith studies as well as the advances already made. We specifically focus on the Open Islamicate texts Initiative (OpenItI), a large, academically curated corpus of arabic texts sourced from various online libraries. this corpus is continuously vetted and expanded by scholarly contributions. We discuss its advantages for computational macro-analysis and for more traditional close reading, and survey recent research in digital hadith studies as an example of the possibilities of computational macro-analysis, we focus on assessing the output of the software ‘passim’, which has identified millions of …
Querying The Past: Automatic Source Attribution With Language Models, Ryan Muther, Mathew Barber, David Smith
Querying The Past: Automatic Source Attribution With Language Models, Ryan Muther, Mathew Barber, David Smith
Faculty & Staff Publications
This paper explores new methods for locating the sources used to write a text by 昀椀ne-tuning a variety of language models to rerank candidate sources. These methods promise to shed new light on traditions with complex citational practices, such as in medieval Arabic where citations are ambiguous and boundaries of quotation are poorly defined. After retrieving candidates sources using a baseline BM25 retrieval model, a variety of reranking methods are tested to see how effective they are at the task of source attribution. We conduct experiments on two datasets—English Wikipedia and medieval Arabic historical writing—and employ a variety of retrieval- …
The Objectives Of Islamic Law: The Promises And Challenges Of The Maqāṣid Al-SharīʿA, Walid Ghali
The Objectives Of Islamic Law: The Promises And Challenges Of The Maqāṣid Al-SharīʿA, Walid Ghali
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Introduction: A Legacy Of Raised Expectations, Leif Stenberg, Christa Salamandra
Introduction: A Legacy Of Raised Expectations, Leif Stenberg, Christa Salamandra
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Naqshbandiyya In Damascus: Strategies To Establish And Strengthen The Order In A Changing Society, Leif Stenberg
Naqshbandiyya In Damascus: Strategies To Establish And Strengthen The Order In A Changing Society, Leif Stenberg
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The Revealed Word And The Struggle For Authority: Interpretation And Use Of Islamic Terminology Among Algerian Islamists, Leif Stenberg
The Revealed Word And The Struggle For Authority: Interpretation And Use Of Islamic Terminology Among Algerian Islamists, Leif Stenberg
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